Welcome to prime time. The woodward book drops tomorrow. Trump calls bob woodward a liar. Woodward says, america better wake up to trumps attack on truth. Who will readers believe . We have the latest on which way that might go. Inside the white house, they are chasing down the anonymous oped writer. Outside, theyre doing their best to tamp down the impact of that, the book and the mueller probe. One man trying to do all three for the president has some skin in the game himself, roger stone. A ninth associate of his just questioned by the mueller team. Does he think mueller really is out to get him . All these political storms are nothing compared to whats headed straight for the east coast. Hurricane florence. Now a category 4 and growing. You have to look at its size and think about what will come early and what will be there after the eye. Theres a warning for you, all Authorities Say the same thing. If you are in the path, heed the warnings of your local leaders and get out if you must. We have the latest path, the power potential and preparations. All together, lets get after it. Bob woodward warning americans saying, people, quote, better wake up to the reality of president trumps reality. Behavior. The book goes on sale tomorrow. The publisher says its racing to print enough copies to meet demand, demand being fuelled by the president s fury. This morning he called the book a joke and an assault against him. Whats the impact going to be . This as the hunt continues for the Senior Trump Administration official responsible for the anonymous New York Times oped. That echoes the themes of the book. Lets check in with roger stone. Sir, welcome back to prime time. Thanks for having me, i think. Does caputo know something you dont . Do you think you know who wrote the oped . This is the most popular parlor game right now. I have a theory no one wrote it. Its a fabrication. What i do think is that the president s ordering Jeff Sessions to investigate it is a waste of time. In fact, the entire issue is a distraction. The president should stay focused on continuing to deliver the good economic news. Wage growth, job creation, gdp growth. At record levels. Right. African and hispanic unemployment at the lowest point ever. I think those are better themes to run on for the 2018 election. I frankly think thats the president s strong suit. Why dont you think he spends any time instead of who wrote it, about thinking about the message, its consistent with the book, its consistent with so many things we heard leaked out of the white house . Why not have selfreflection and figure out why this message keeps getting out there . Well, actually, if you read the actual oped, it would argue that the adults are in charge. In all honesty, chris, the adults were in charge for the last 30 years. What did it get us . Foreign war which cost us billions and many lives without our National Interest being clear. A stagnant economy. The erosion of our civil liberties. A broken immigration system. Trade deals that were onesided and benefitted our partners. Sucked the jobs out of america. I dont think we were better off when the adults, the establishment, was in charge. These are his guys. They are his guys, roger, and women. They keep saying the same thing. He doesnt do the homework. He ignores the homework. He takes messages from fox and other sources instead of from us. We worry about his competence and his judgement. Its an unusual level of rancor and criticism from your own. You are right. He has hired a number of the wrong people. I dont understand as an outsider, as a noninterventionist president , somebody who is outside the two party that has run the country into the ground, why he made some of the personnel choices that he has made. I disagree with many of the picks. Now i think unfortunately, some of the chickens are coming home to roost. What i would point out is the people you refer to, they dont say these things on the record, unless, like they have been fired. You have a certain level of cowardice here. If you disagree with the president , you should resign. Dont take the high government position and then hide behind the anonymous quote. They say they need to be there. I have heard that from sources of my own. Obviously, we would always rather have people on the record, of course, that ignore as a reality of journalism that often sources are anonymous because theyre trying to protect themselves, their station or other things. When you look at the woodward book, its not just blind quotes. Its context of meetings and events with dates where he puts you in the room. It doesnt sound like a list of he said he said. Its what happened and why. With all due respect, bob woodward has a longtime credibility problem. My own book, woodward and bernstein, the godfathers of fake news, will be available tomorrow. Mr. Woodward has been misleading about his role as a military intelligence briefer in the nixon white house. He claims he interviewed former cia director bill casey in his hospital room after casey had been hit with a stroke and had lost the capacity for speech. Theres a number of disparities and untruths throughout this mans career. He has to answer for himself. Wait until my book hits. Lets be honest, when woodward wrote the obama book, you liked him. When bernstein wrote the Hillary Clinton book, you liked him fine. They are not men where you got a lot of space to go after their integrity. At journalists. Its not like its done by some hack. I have to respectfully disagree with that. I think there has been a complete pattern of fabrication in both of their work. I like carl bernstein. I think hes a great guy to have a beer with. A story he put on here because his source misled him turns out to be incorrect. He should now say, my source misled me. I was incorrect. I think it would be the story was accurate as reported. Theres a disparity between the sworn testimony to the Intelligence Community thats on him and his people. Thats not carls problem. Right . Thats why carl should throw him over the side. Say the story was incorrect. I know a lot about the reporting in that story. I dont know what carls specific sourcing is. You dont out of source. You dont go bad on a source because of the reaction to the reporting. Put that to the side. Talk about you specifically. Nine of your people now have gone before mueller. Thats a lot of smoke. What do you think the chance is that he indicts you . You know, look, i have no idea. He has no evidence of russian collusion. He has no evidence of wikileaks collaboration. He has no evidence that i knew about the acquisition and publication of John Podestas emails. Theres a story on the cnn site that again takes my tweet but omits the word the. Referring to john and tony. The coincidence, roger im not saying its proof. Im not saying he has you. I dont know what he has. I dont know what your people have been telling him. I dont know the truth of what you know. The timing, july 22, wikileaks publishes the hacked emails. August 4. Saying that was puffer. You said you were kidding. I will give you that august 21, the tweet you are talking about, trust me, it will soon be the president be the podestas time in the barrel. You say, its a typo, you meant both of them. I will give you that. Plural possessive. It may be correct now that i look at it. On august 14 they write about the involvement in the ukraine working for the same Political Party as paul manafort. In april of 2016, in the panama papers, the podesta brothers are involved in russian business, including banking, aluminum, all of this is public. Sure. Theres no state secret here. Yes, it is a coincidence, there is no evidence to the contrary. Their activities and having proof of emails being taken is some coincidence. But its a coincidence. Theres no evidence that i knew in advance that anybody had acquired the email. I read them when they were published. Did the tell the president that you knew bad emails were coming for anybody . No. Actually, no. I never discussed this matter with the president. I told chuck todd that on meet the press. He seemed incredulous. That is the fact. Every week i have to be hit with this. Theres an email between you and steve bannon. No, there is not. You told the president on a phone call that he put on the speakerphone what was coming. No, that didnt happen either. Theres a lot of fake news. You have to be careful about what you report. I report what i know. I ask questions about what i dont. You do have thats a subjective situation. People are going to have to piece it together. We will see what there is and not in terms of anything provable. You had a situation you are trying to clean up. I think people should hear your answer on this show. You met with a man who went by the name greenberg. He had a hat on. He had a shirt. The first time you talked to investigators, you neglected to mention that meeting. You subsequently sent a letter to them mentioning the meeting. How did you forget a meeting with a russian like that . Pretty simple. I didnt know that he was a russian. Second, a more serious question, he was an fbi informant. He is convicted of murder in russia who is in the country with nine separate visas that are approved by the miami office of the fbi. The real question is, why was an fbi informant approaching me in may of 2016 when the fbi says the investigation into potential russian collusion and donald trump didnt open until june . Yes, i concede that i forgot that assumes he was there for the government. Even if he were lets say he was a total spy for the united states. You still forgot to say anything about it. Even though it looked like a big red flag. I did. Well, not really, because nothing illegal happened at this tenminute meeting. Nothing happened as a result of the meeting. What would be my motive to not remember this . I did nothing wrong. As the Washington Post reported, i rejected his offer to sell me information on Hillary Clinton flatly. Then he told me what the real game was. I dont want your money, he said. It was 2 million. I dont want your money. I want Donald Trumps money. Smells like a setup to me. Mr. Stone, i appreciate you coming on to speak on this show as always. Chris, this was great. Many thanks. Good luck with your new show. Appreciate it. Big story for you. Mandatory evacuations. Forget about the political storms. Lets get to the real one, Hurricane Florence is no joke. She just keeps growing and growing. Now you see the number on your screen. 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Bracing for impact from the carolinas to maryland. Much of that coast as it trails up east and north is vulnerable. Tom seder tracking the storm. Good evening. I know what im saying, ive been hearing you say. Your big concern at this moment . All indications, chris, this storm has not reached its peak. It was a Tropical Storm a little while ago. By tomorrow morning, a category 5. I suspect that by tomorrow morning, we will have a hurricane watch in the carolina coast. Maybe a storm surge watch. Well get updates every three hours. If you go back to the satellite era and find the exact latitude and longitude it was yesterday, not one storm in history made it to the east coast. They typically go north toward bermuda. This is bath water right now. The water for the first part, the first half of our season was colder than last year. Everything has changed. Its moving into temperatures that are mid 80s and upper 80s. Most likely, this will intensify to a category 5. It will wobble a little bit. We will continue to watch the winds. If you look at the scale from saturday at 5 00 p. M. , once it made it to a category 1, rapid intensification to category 5. All the elements are there for this to continue just to strengthen. Most likely, make landfall at category 4 strength. That is devastating. Ive been looking at the models. They are getting smaller and smaller, fewer and fewer. That means that the path is becoming more and more agreed upon. Its what you are showing people. What hits and where it hits are equal coefficients in any potential disaster. This is a uniquely vulnerable coastline in different aspects. When is the last time this area saw anything like this . September 22, 1989, 29 years ago when hurricane hugo moved into this area, just north of charleston. Moved in as a category 4 with winds at 140. This could be a couple Miles Per Hour stronger. Came in a different angle. Theres the color, the line in purple. It killed 27 people. It didnt just devastate the area, chris. It changed the entire environment. It changed the coastline. The topography. It created over 100,000 homeless americans. The total cost was 9. 5 billion. It was the costliest Natural Disaster in u. S. History. It now ranks 17th because so many more people are living on the coastline. It moved through quick. We are seeing something different. It moved fast. With this one stalling, thats a big, big problem. Remember, harvey last year in texas, it put on the brakes and stayed around. For a couple weeks. It was dropping literally feet of water. People have to remember, theyre telling you to get out now because tomorrow morning, its not all about the eye. The eye is the least part of the suck. The first waves will come, soften everything up, make it difficult to travel. The storm comes and you have the back side to deal with. We will stay on it hour by hour. Tom, i will be relying on you heavily over the next few days. I will be here. 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With that anonymous oped seeming to reaffirm some of whats in the book, whom you can trust . Lets debate it. Jennifer. And rick santorum. Trump didnt talk like that about woodward when he was on the phone with him. Says, you are always fair. When he wrote the obama book, he liked it. He did. He tweeted about it in 2013 or whatever it was and said, wow, how can the obama team be so angry about bob woodward. He has great credibility. Bob woodward has written 18 books. He is many would argue the greatest journalist of his generation, of our time. Then you compare him with the president who is flailing about. He is the man of the lie. The Washington Post fact checker last week had him telling 4,713 lies in his presidency, averaging out about 15 lies per day. This is why in your cnn poll 65 of americans do not believe the president is truthful or honest. Who are you going to believe . I think woodward gets the nod. Rick, is this where you say, yeah, but people knew that about him and taxes are lower and the economy is up . The president has to do what he did during the last election, which is when things got down to the end, what you saw was trump sort of becoming more of a typical president ial candidate. Im not saying he was. But im saying, he quieted things down, he focused more, he was on message more during the debates and some other things. I think he has to go into that mode right now. He can no longer continue to do what he has been doing for the past year and a half. It is coming home to roost. Its time for him to get his game face on, stay focused and do what is necessary to bring those votes home. Rick santorum says what got you here wont get you there. Whats the during the last campaign, when people he was losing this race until the last few weeks of the campaign. They saw a side of donald trump that made them feel more comfortable. He has to show that side again. Can i just say, chris, i mean, donald trump is not allegedly on the ballot in november. But the house and the senate are. In Bob Woodwards book, he has a really interesting story, i havent read it, it releases tomorrow. One of the details that was released today was a story about how paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell called up members of the Business Community after they had resigned from the president S Business Council in the wake of the charleston stuff the charlottesville stuff, and saying to them, good, im glad you did this. All of this stuff behind the scenes that these members of the house and senate know and frankly a lot in the media who have heard these people complain about it, this all behind the scenes stuff goes to the point of the election, which is that people do not want a bunch of spineless yes men. They want a check on this president. Trump will be on the ballot. What will be on the ballot is can we get somebody in there who can check this man . The more of these stories that come out, the more people are sick and tired of this poop show in washington. What you are saying is impeachment . Thats your check . A complete obstruction. Dont cooperate with everything. Shut down everything. Rick, you even even you have to be sick and tired of the lies that come out of this mans mouth every single day. I know you are here to support him. At some point, you have to throw your hands up and say, oh, my god, we need better leadership. Im not here to support anybody. Im here to tell the truth as i see it. There are a lot of people in this administration and in congress who are effectively checking Donald Trumps excesses. They are not. You see it in the books. We do. We see it in the books. We see it in the reports. The democrats are not effectively checking. What they are doing they do not have the votes. Hello. They are saying, hell no to anything that thats not true. Thats not true. You are saying they are taking the mcconnell playbook and making it their own . You can call it whatever i want to call it that. Thats who did that. I think the president has president obama is as much to blame for the shutdown of washington by did he make mcconnell say we are here to obstruct . Thats what we are here to do . That was a stupid thing for Mitch Mcconnell to say. I dont think it played out. The reality is the president never negotiated in good faith to get to compromise. It was always his way or the highway. You see trump negotiating in good faith . Actually, thats the amazing thing about donald trump. This is a man who is not ideological. He would put together a pretty good deal on immigration. Yet, he has thats not what schumer and he walked away from it. The bigger issue this week, all of this talk about the oped and this book has obscured the fact that theres another rubber stamp thats coming down the pike, which is justice potentially kavanaugh. Here is a man who was put on the list of trumps favored potential Supreme Court justices because he has an expansive view of president ial power. He doesnt believe in special counsels. He doesnt believe president s should be subpoenaed. I worry that not only do you have a rubber stamp in the legislature and people who will not stand up to what they know is going on behind the scenes, but if you pass this man on, then you will have a rubber stamp on the Supreme Court. Very dangerous. If you watched he didnt say anything during the hearings. Look at his writings. I will look at his writings and look at what he said during the hearing, the context he said that. He doesnt have an overly expansive view of president ial powers. Number two, this man under any other standard, any other time this would not even be a debate. This man has more qualifications not saying he is not qualified. He will be dangerous. Lets just all agree on one thing. The process is a sham. The party in power pushes through its person because they have the votes. The other side asks questions that are sometimes good, sometimes gratuitous but never answered. Both sides allow that to continue so they can get their people in. Theres nothing in common sense that demands that a judge tell you absolutely nothing that he or she believes about what will come before them. We allow it. The process is a sham. No. The process is what look, i think advise and consent does not mean you pick the judges. That means the president who wins the election can nominate people who share his judicial philosophy. As long as that person is the mainstream of judicial philosophy. Judge kavanaugh is. Clearly judge well, lets see you are forgetting something about kavanaugh that makes him difference. You are forgetting something that makes him different from any nominee i have seen. He has been a political operative. He has been a judge for 12 years. He has done that job. He did the job for starr. He put together some of the ugliest questions ever seen. He wrote things. Look at his record as a judge. I have looked. I guarantee i looked at it closer than you. Thats my job. He has voted about 87 with the rest of the bench. He is even. With democrats and republicans. On the cases that matter, you dont know if where he is today is where he said he wanted to be. That roe versus wade is not settled law, which now he wont talk about. He said things during the hearing that worried me as someone who would like to see it overturned. He reiterated on multiple oceans about how its been reaffirmed and reaffirmed. He never said that he agrees that it was decided. He has written that settled law doesnt mean settled at the Supreme Court level. He wont say it now. If it was the overwhelming thing, it would never have been decided. It overturned precedent. You cant say rick, rick you are making my point. What you are describing is not mainstream. Be honest about it. At least be honest. If you want to be hot around the collar, fine, be honest and say i may overturn precedent when i get on the court. Thats the truth. He never said it. My whole point in raising this is that he was put on the list for the purpose of his expansive view of executive power. That is whats terribly frightening because you have mueller coming down the pike potentially with some certainly a report, maybe subpoenas. He didnt say he would recuse himself as a Supreme Court justice if he makes it. He is going to be the fifth vote to be a rubber stamp for donald trump, both obviously on the Mueller Investigation but also on choice and on protecting people who have preexisting conditions. Those are the things that democrats are caring about. I stand by the fact that we should have never let the process get to where it has gotten. I dont know how it changes now. Were doing politics. We are keeping our eye in the atlantic. Three different hurricanes are churning in that area of water right now. 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Right now, millions of people are bracing for what could be the strongest storm to strike the east coast in decades. Do we know for sure . Of course not. Does it matter . No. Because if its anywhere close, it could be completely devastating. Right now, there are 3,000 National Guard troops standing at the ready as rescuers from other states are already being called in to help. One of those about to leave is miamis fire chief and men under his control. He has been told he has to get out one wave of people to south carolina. There may be more requests from fema. I know the chief very well. He took care of me and my team at cnn when we covered hurricane irma. Chief, its good to see you well. Chris, good to see you and congratulations on the show. Appreciate it. Thanks for being part of it. It looks like im going to be seeing you and your men and women again soon. How concerned should people be about whats headed towards the east coast of the carolinas . Well, obviously, if you look at the coverage, you can see that this is something to take very seriously. Its something that needs to be watched closely as all of the professionals are watching it minute to minute. When evacuation orders are issued or orders to shelter in place, obviously, they need to be adhered to and we need to stay closely tuned to our local public officials, because they give us minute to minute updates and give us clear direction on what we need to be doing. You have so many different capabilities. People cant really tell, but you are standing at the warehouse there. You have trucks, boats, different ways to move devices, all kinds of Power Equipment to create your own village, essentially, so you can keep your men and women up and running and rescue people. Swift water rescue, you believe needs to be the first wave. What are you anticipating will happen in the first impact . Well, through our cooperative relationship dhs fema, we have a federal task force that is on the ready 24 hours a day. As you said, one of the components of that task force is our Mission Ready package for swift water rescue. These men and women will get a complement of gear together. They will leave in the next hour or so. They will be ready to respond to any type of floodwater or swift moving water event, whether it means pulling people out of their homes or just getting people to dry land so they can be evacuated to an area where they can shelter until the water begins to recede, if it becomes a water event. From the time of hurricane hugo, that was the last biggie up there that did tremendous damage, one of our experts was saying it was the most expensive catastrophe of its kind. Now you have more population density in the same areas that were hit. What does that mean for you . Well, it means that obviously it becomes a much larger undertaking when you welcome at evacuations as we have seen in the state of florida. It means that we have to be aware when we go out and when we perform these search and rescue activities, we recognize that there are times that people dont necessarily heed the evacuation and the more people you are talking about that you begin with, the more people ultimately there are to rescue in the end. We have to be cognizant of that. As long as we as a society continue to build so close to the water, were always going to have these issues. But we need to prepare for them ahead of time. We need to heed those warnings. Its significant. Here we are on monday. Already, fema is reaching out. You are getting special First Responders as deep as from florida up there and into the position of harms way. We respect so much what you do, chief. Thank you for talking to us. We will check in with you guys every day. I may be seeing you soon. 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Go on the internet and you can see. Sometimes he was penalized for it. Other times he was not. I listened to professionals and some women who play the sport and say the rules are rules and that she broke the rules. So there you go. On the personal side, as it relates to me, as a person of color, shes a person of color, as a woman, shes a minority, i know that there is a double standard. As my mom would say, people are looking for you to show your ass, dont show it to them. It was incumbent upon her. Its a High Pressure job. Not to show her butt in that sense. Not to get mad. Not to give people what they wanted. Think about it, go back into the room. Its easy to say that. Gather her thoughts and say what she had to say about the ref. I know that theres a double standard for her. 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Therefore it wouldnt have counted toward any further penalty. But ramos, the name of the umpire in the chair, went strict. Violation. That was his choice. Serena protested. That was her choice. She then broke her racket later on a match where she was being outplayed significantly by a 20yearold named naomi osaka, who deserved the win. The racket smash triggered a point deduction because of a second violation. Those are the rules. No discretion. That takes us to what matters most here, okay . The third violation and the penalty of a whole game being taken from Serena Williams. Thats when she went at it with the chair umpire. Thats what caused that third violation. And this is what has jumped the net from the tennis court to the court of public opinion. Would ramos treat a man the same way . What do we know . He has not done the same thing to a man in hotly contested major finals like this one. But was it sexism on display . Serena called him a thief who stole a point from her. No profanity. So was it what she said, or was it who it was coming from . Instead of seeing the most dominant player perhaps in the history of the game, did he just see a mouthy woman . Now, thats been suggested by a lot. No less than Billie Jean King suggested, and she knows something about gender bias in tennis, right . She said, women can be depicted as unstable or emotional when men are called assertive and aggressive for the same behavior. Now, men who say out there, ah, save all that. This is simple. Serena asked for it by running her mouth. The rules are the rules. I suggest you look at how men behave in similar circumstances and what is tolerated with them that was not tolerated here. Now, on the other side, serena did escalate this situation. And most players, male and female, dont usually press it after one violation, let alone two. Important context perhaps. Did ramos have to take the game . No. And while he is known for being tough, he is not known for taking games, and it was a huge decision in a huge moment. I wonder if he would do it again. Thats an intriguing question, but thats not the big question for me. Thats just about tennis. I have daughters, a wife, sisters. Im surrounded and dependent on women in all aspects of my life. Would serena do it again . Our best clue is what she said afterwards. The fact that i have to go through this is just an example for the next person that has emotions and that want to express themselves, and they want to be a strong woman. And theyre going to be allowed to do that because of today. Maybe it didnt work out for me, but its going to work out for the next person. Now, she got a lot of applause for that among the press by the way in that room. I bring up the women in my life because ive heard this from a lot of them. And the question becomes, will other women look at this and see a point of empowerment or a cautionary tale . When i was thinking about this, i was torn. Its not like ramos just came after williams for no reason. But then i remembered something had happened earlier in the tournament. Do you remember the woman who did something that men do all the time . Her name is alize cornet, and she changed her shirt on the court. The heat was ridunculous in this tournament, right, as was the humidity. She was given a violation. The men arent. Why her . And the idea that women get a break for heat when men dont. Why not . Theyre all elite athletes. Why the double standard . Its that combination of ingredients that put a bad taste in my mouth. Heres what i said to my oldest daughter who is 15 and mighty and not happy about what happened with serena. You fight for yourself and what you think is right always. That is your right and your responsibility. But be right as well as righteous and know the risks. Free speech aint always free. There may be consequences. You may go too far. You may be wrong, and then you pay. You may pay anyway, even if youre right. But the standard is right and wrong, not male or female. And to the extent that i get why people think serena got a raw deal as a woman, we know we have a lot further to go when it comes to equality. Lets not hide behind some illusion that everything is equal and fair. But lets also not forget this. Lets not forget where this happened in the Billie Jean King tennis center. Weve gotten some things right. Weve gotten some things right the right way in the name of progress, but we do have a long way to go. Thank you for watching. Cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. Very well said. No matter, i think, what you say, you have to be careful. Listen, im not a woman, so i cant speak for it. This is my thats your